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' Organs from people who died of drug overdose are just as healthy as those donated by those who died of other causes.
' The number of organ transplants in the United States has grown, in large part because of a rise in deaths from drug overdoses.'http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05194-x

These significant increases in death rates were driven by synthetic opioids other than methadone (72.2%), most likely illicitly-manufactured fentanyl (2,3), and heroin (20.6%).
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The misuse of prescription opioids is intertwined with that of illicit opioids; data have demonstrated that nonmedical use of prescription opioids is a significant risk factor for heroin use

The research team also examined the Eurotransplant data that tracked transplantation in eight European countries during the same period. They found the number of organ donors dying from drug intoxication in Europe has remained low (less than 1 percent). Stehlik attributes these low numbers to policies in Europe that have kept opioid drug prescriptions low.

It's knowing a lot, as this article from a recent 'Annals of Internal Medicine' tells us:

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'Overdose-Death Donors in Organ Transplantation'

'outcomes with ODD organs were noninferior to those with organs from trauma-death donors (TDDs) and medical-death donors (MDDs). Compared with MDDs, ODDs were less likely to have hypertension, diabetes, or prior myocardial infarction but had slightly higher creatinine levels and were more likely to donate after circulatory death. Cold ischemic time of transplanted kidneys was similar across all donor types. In an adjusted analysis, recipients of ODD kidneys and livers had a lower risk for death than recipients of MDD organs and a similar risk for death and graft loss compared with recipients of TDD organs.'

'In conclusion, there is considerable regional variation in the rates of donor heart recovery from persons who died from drug intoxication in the United States, and the increase in rates of recovery appears to be associated with a net decrease in the heart transplant waiting-list size. It is important that effective efforts to target the drug-overdose epidemic go forward, and the transplantation community certainly supports those efforts.